Sweden: Swedish Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong

On July 20th, 2007, eight years after the persecution of Falun Gong began in China, Falun Gong practitioners from all over Sweden gathered in Kalmar. Kalmar is a small city in south east Sweden where local practitioners have, for several years, let the media and the public know about the persecution in China. The response has been very positive and practitioners have been supported by local newspapers.

In September, a trade project between Kalmar city and Chinese corporations will be opened. This has given Swedish practitioners the possibility to inform more people about human rights crimes in China, especially the persecution of Falun Gong.

On this sunny summer day, Swedish practitioners held a rally at the square in the middle of Kalmar, to inform the media and the public about the persecution. Different practitioners spoke with the help of loudspeakers about the persecution from different perspectives and also about the cultivation method of Falun Gong. They talked about the horrifying systematic organ harvesting that has been going on in secret in Chinese labour camps, Falun Gong practitioners being the principle victims. An independent Canadian report tells convincingly that organ harvesting from living Falun Gong prisoners has been going on since 2000. The victims die in the process and are cremated so there is no evidence left. Information about 41 000 transplants are missing and several Chinese hospitals have advertised on the web with very fast delivery of organs.

The local newspaper Barometern came and reported on our activity.